About a minute ago, Robby Findler wrote: > Won't said newbie's be even more confused to find that drracket > doesn't work? Or am I missing something here?
If the builds use our own copy of libffi then that's one *less* reason for it to not work. > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Two minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Two days ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: > >> >> As of the latest in the git repo, when libffi is installed > >> >> (including header files), then `configure' detects it and uses it, > >> >> instead of building the copy of libffi that is included with the > >> >> Racket sources. > >> > > >> > Does anyone see any problem with adding `--disable-libffi' to the > >> > nightly build, to avoid making the distribution installers depend on > >> > an installed libffi? > >> > >> I think the ubuntu build should use the system libffi, since I think > >> it's installed by default on ubuntu systems. > > > > Shaving off a few kbs is insignificant compared to potential confusion > > for newbies, so I really prefer the conservative option. > > > > -- > > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > > _________________________________________________ > > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > > -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
